This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Ivan TverdokhlibPauper | Pauper |
 Oksana PodlesnayaPauper's wife | Pauper's wife |
 Vasyl KrasenkoKurkul (miser) | Kurkul (miser) |
| HHeorhiy AstafyevKurkul's son | Kurkul's son |
 V. PiddubnyiKurkul's son | Kurkul's son |
 Stepan ShahaidaComrade Artyom | Comrade Artyom |
| TT. Vagner(uncredited) | (uncredited) |
| SStepan VasyutinskiyWorker (uncredited) | Worker (uncredited) |
 Ivan Malikov-Elvorti(uncredited) | (uncredited) |
| AArkadiy MalskiyRailroad worker (uncredited) | Railroad worker (uncredited) |
 Petro Masokha(uncredited) | (uncredited) |
 Serhii MininRed army commander (uncredited) | Red army commander (uncredited) |
 Kateryna OsmialovskaBourgeois (uncredited) | Bourgeois (uncredited) |
| AAleksandr Pereguda(uncredited) | (uncredited) |
 Semyon SvashenkoKalmyk soldier (uncredited) | Kalmyk soldier (uncredited) |
| IIvan SizovWorker (uncredited) | Worker (uncredited) |
| OOlga EmmanuelNaked woman (uncredited) | Naked woman (uncredited) |